"John_Salonica;c-16528319" wrote:
"Erpe;c-16527997" wrote:
"LeGardePourpre;c-16527981" wrote:
@Erpe
Hmmm... a GP is announced 2 weeks before the release date. I think the next GP will be released in November.
Gamescom 2018 is on Tuesday, August 21
I can’t guess that because things are not normal just now. I think that Seasons was made ready to be released before the GP because EA is preparing an announcement about TS5 being released next year and it was important for EA to tell people that TS4 still will get packs for years. But does that mean that the next GP also will be released before the next SP?
They said that this is not the last expansion pack which means sims 4 is not done. What makes you think ts5 will be announce next year ?? (just asking, i would love that tbh )
I have explained this several times. But my points mainly are:
1. EA needs to release a new Sims game every 5 years or EA will lose a whole generation of new young simmers (maybe about 11 to 15 years old) who want to start playing (and now likely already have tried the Sims Mobile). The reason is that they need their parents to pay for the game and all the huge number of packs. But if they start now the parents will tell them to find a cheaper game or to just play the Sims Mobile and the Sims Freeplay instead. Parents don’t like their kids to start playing a game that already have so many packs as TS4 has now.
2. EA has always released a new big Sims game every 5 yrs even though it has cost them more than half of the current simmers every time. This shows that for EA it is much more important to have a Sims game that can attract new simmers than it is to keep the current simmers.
3. A lot of gurus recently for no apparent reason went to twitter just to guarantee that TS4 will get many more packs. Grant even very unusually said that he expect to make packs for TS4 for years. But both Grant and all the other gurus have for a mysterious reason avoided to say that TS5 won’t be released in the next couple of years even though that would have been a much easier way to tell people the same - unless EA actually plans to release TS5 but to make more packs for TS4 anyway.
This shows me two things:
1. TS5 will likely be announced very soon and released either late in 2019 or very early in 2020. This announcement is even the likely reason that all those gurus suddenly were sent to twitter to prepare the announcement of TS5 by explaining that TS4 won’t end anyway.
2. TS5 will almost certainly be an online multiplayer game because otherwise EA wouldn’t likely have planned to release packs for TS4 even after the release of TS5. But EA prepared multiplayer already for TS4 but omitted it because it needed more work if it shouldn’t give the same problems as the SimCity 2013 got into. But EA usually doesn’t give up and doesn’t like to let some work go to waste. Therefore I am quite sure that EA now is ready to let TS5 become a multiplayer game just like most of EA’s other big PC games are.
